Chantelle Marshall

“actually brought man tears to my eyes.”
― Mike Gayle, The One That Got Away

“Some people have said it all by the time they’re twenty-two or twenty-five, but I don’t get that feeling with Hendrix or Joplin. I don’t think they were finished.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock 'n' Roll Survivor

“The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil

“This was the age of Jane Eyre, whom we all remember refused to accept Mr. Rochester’s generous offer to make over her wardrobe, preferring merino wool to the silk organzas he ordered for her. If only she’d had Melania Trump to set her straight on this wrongheaded attitude toward fashion.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble